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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev.John Benson, Catholic Department" <richard.melville@xtra.co.nz>
Reply-To: tntcouriercompany281@yahoo.ca
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:57:16 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: Dear Friend,




Dear Friend,
I have rearrange the method of delivery of your fund.Though,you choose FedEx before but it happens that they disappointed us that time.So i decided to take the package back from them and reconvert those fund into an ATM card with the worth of $1.5MUSD which will allow you withdraw for only $3000usd daily till the whole sum is terminated.

Therefore, I have done every thing possible which i think would hinders the delay of your ATM delivery to be convenient despite that it has cost you so much money and time.

I have registered the Card to TNT courier company in Nigeria to help me deliver the card to because many companies like UPS,DHL and FEDEX  has disappointed so many of us for a very long while.Instead of them to deliver a package,they will be demanding for another fees which is bound in our country here because when such things are going on in Nigeria,we will be regarded as scam.That is has caused a lot of hard to the image of my nation.So i decided to handle every thing over to this truth worthy courier agent TNT.

All you have to do is to reconfirm your full information to them with this bellowed email address:
Contact operational manager:John more Dickson
Email:tntcouriercompany281@yahoo.ca

Please,try to contact them in matter of days with your information applying for your ATM card registered with them for delivery.Though they might ask you for some credential that states that the card belongs to you but what you will is to let them that i instruct you only to provide you full information only.

Finally,try to comply with them in all step,but do not pay them for registration fee because i have done that with the little money left with me.In fact,to give  a clue,they will demand for their delivery fee but the delivery fee will not be above $75_$90usd.If they ask above such fund,you regard them as scam and report such back to me.
Good luck and God bless you all the time.

Regards
Rev.John Benson
Catholic Department
Lagos.

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